Preparation: 30 min - Cooking: 1h30 This beautifully fragrant apple spice cake is the perfect excuse to sit down to afternoon tea. There’s something so special about making time in the afternoon to sit down for a cup of tea and a slice of cake. It’s something I grew up with. My Nan or Mum...

Preparation: 20 min - Cooking: 1h This Spelt Zucchini and Lemon Cake is a beautiful, moist, dairy free cake with a fresh zing of lemon. And it is a wonderful way to get kids to eat their vegetables! As far as vegetable cakes go it is hard to beat a good carrot cake, but I think this Spelt,...

Preparation: 20 min - Cooking: 1h30 This Upside Down Fig Cake is a beautiful cake, with a tender crumb, and a subtle surprise of rosemary. There have been figs aplenty at my local farmers market of late and I’ve been lapping them up. It’s hard not to resist eating them as is, but when I picked...

Preparation: 15 min - Cooking: 15 min Confidence is a funny thing. There are those that have it in abundance, those that have too much of it, and there are those who are lacking. I’m definitely part of the latter group. Always have been, although, at times, I’ve been able to fake my way into...

Preparation: 20 min - Cooking: 1h I remember my first forays into the baking world, which began with helping mum in the kitchen. I’d stir the cake batter and help by fetching sugar or flour from the pantry. Back then I thought there were only 3 types of flour – plain, self raising and wholemeal....

“What you see before you, my friend, is the result of a lifetime of chocolate.” - Katherine Hepburn Roasting may be one of the most basic methods of cooking, but it’s also, in my mind at least, the most wonderful. Roasting brings about rich complex flavours,...

Preparation: 30 min - Cooking: 1h30 This is my favourite type of cake. The best type of cake. The top is sticky and jammy. The caramel oranges glisten in their shimmery golden pool. Almost toffee like on the edges, it’s all I can do to simply pick away at the topping. The cake underneath...

Preparation: 30 min - Cooking: 1h In my previous post I shared my love of tea, so it’s perhaps unsurprising I have a tea recipe for you today – a beautiful Blueberry and Earl Grey Tea Cake. Earl Grey is perhaps one of the most beautifully fragrant teas, and is one so many of us are familiar...

Preparation: 15 min - Cooking: 15 min I couldn’t imagine a world without chocolate. I go through phases, with certain foods becoming a favourite for short periods of time. Those favourites, and phases, pass though, and I soon move onto the next thing. The one constant however is chocolate....

Preparation: 30 min - Cooking: 1h Let's start by saying if you plan on making this cake the day before and photographing it on the following day don't. The juicy rhubarb topping combined with the humidity here in Brisbane lead to an unattractive sag in the middle. While this cake may not...

Preparation: 10 min - Cooking: 45 min On outward appearances blood oranges look just like regular oranges. Sometimes there might be the slightest red blush on the skin that hints at the inner beauty to be found inside. And inside blood oranges are beautiful with flecks of blood red intermingled...

Pears and chocolate. It’s a classic combination that I didn’t think could get any better, but add a touch of cardamom and it’s transported to a whole new level in this beautiful gluten free Pear, Chocolate and Cardamom Cake. I love the unexpected surprise...

I, like most children, grew up with mandarins in my school lunch box. Their easy to remove skin, and segments that easily break apart, make them the perfect snack for children, as opposed to their more fiddly cousins, the orange. Despite their user friendly...

When I was a teenager I simply adored oranges. I’d drink glass after glass of orange juice, not able to get enough of it’s sweet tart flavour. And I just loved peeling an orange and slowly devouring each segment, it’s sticky juice dripping down my chin....

I love baking cakes. Cakes of all kinds - chocolate cake, lemon cake, apple cake, cakes of all kinds, cupcakes too. While the smell of bread baking is wonderfully comforting, the smell of a cake baking is even more-so for me. It's not just the act of baking...

Is it just me or did 2012 fly by in the blink of an eye? No sooner had I become used to writing 2012 as the year instead of 2011 and then it was over and now I have to get used to the fact it's 2013. I wonder if age has an impact on how quickly we perceive...

A few months back I was asked to develop a recipe for the Gluten Free Scallywag Christmas 2012 magazine by the lovely Jas, author of the Gluten Free Scallywag. Being a fan of Jas's beautiful blog, and her photography, I immediately said yes. And when I...

Do you get excited about Christmas? When I was growing up, while I was obviously excited about Christmas, as all kids are, I was nowhere near as excited about Christmas as my Mum was. Every year she'd be up early, VERY early, trying to make as much noise...

According to my husband "This cake is the shiz!". When he said it several times in between mouthfuls of this Flourless Banana Cake with Cinnamon Cream Cheese Frosting, and then promptly put aside his empty plate informing me not to put it in the dishwasher...

What is your favourite type of cake? For me, the answer is chocolate cake. I'm not fussy about the type of chocolate cake though, as it could be this flourless chocolate orange cake, or this sticky chocolate cake, or this lighter and fluffier style of chocolate...